Bewildering Stories

Danielle L. Parker

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Danielle Parker
Ms. Parker has been a fan of the speculative fiction and mystery genres since she was a teenager reading illicit Andre Norton, A. E. van Vogt, and C. L. Moore paperbacks by flashlight on do-your-homework school nights. College, with a dual major in computer science and accounting and a so-far-inexplicable minor in German, followed. A subsequent career in information technology and telecommunications, where she worked on everything from submarines to police systems to giant call center implementations, didn’t stop her enjoyment of the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and classic horror.

So, after a vicious kick in the teeth and penniless kiss-off by a certain imploding telecommunications giant once proudly known as Lucent Technologies, she decided she ought to have more fun than carrying a company laptop and wearing a stodgy suit and pinching shoes had provided so far and started writing.

Her first novel, The Infinite Instant, came out in September 2008 and won the 2009 EPPIE award for Best Science Fiction. She is now working on its sequel, The Nihilistic Mirror. Fans of Ms. Minuet James will be pleased to know our heroine gets into even worse difficulties in her subsequent adventure. And our heroine’s still got that weak spot for handsome, dangerous men.

Ms. Parker’s second work, an occasionally humorous anthology titled In a Pig’s Eye, featuring the tough adventurer Captain Blunt, will be published by Virtual Tales this summer. Fans of the golden age of pulp science fiction and classic horror should love these stories. What’s not to love about an anthology that includes stories which includes titles “The Curse of the Dog-Faced Mummy,” “The Embrace of the Four-Armed Houri,” and “The Tower of Sighs”?

She has also just completed her second novel, a dark science fiction titled Galen the Deathless, and is now in the painful, frustrating process of finding a publisher for the book. Galen the Deathless is a novel length expansion of a short story that first appeared in Bewildering Stories. She is also at work on its sequel, Galen the King.

In addition, she has on her plate a new “Elvidner” anthology featuring the mysterious wizard Elian Tellen. The first novella in this series, “Bats of Elvidner,” was selected in for the BWS Annual 2008 Retrospective.

Her reviews may be read regularly here at BwS. In spite of all that writing and a serious near-sighted problem, she still manages to read, read, read!


Copyright © 2005, 2006, 2009 by Danielle L. Parker

Bewildering Stories bibliography

Shorter Prose Fiction novel: Mad World Band
The Curse of the Dog-Faced Mummy
Galen the Deathless
Rock Bottom and Up
The Thief of Joy and Light, part 1; parts 2, 3, 4, 5
Lucretia’s New Mattress
The Homecoming
Beautiful Poppies
The Bats of Elvidner (serial)
Chapters 1-4
Chapters 5-7
Chapters 8-9
Chapter 10
The Value of Bewildering Stories

Book Reviews

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IssueAuthorTitle
173Anne BishopThe Invisible Ring
133Lois McMaster BujoldA Civil Campaign
172Lois McMaster BujoldThe Hallowed Hunt
132Gardner DozoisYear's Best Science Fiction, 2003
164Gardner DozoisYear's Best Science Fiction, 2005
144Loren EstlemanSherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
136William GibsonAll Tomorrow's Parties
139Lauren K. HamiltonCerulean Sins

Matt HughesBlack Brillion
171Martin KayeMasterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural
131Mercedes Lackey & James MalloryThe Outstretched Shadow
145Stephen MarloweThe Lighthouse at the End of the World
175L. E. Modesitt, Jr.Alector's Choice
155L. E. Modesitt, Jr.Legacies
181Paul J. NahinTime Travel
156Terry PratchettGoing Postal
138Robert M. PriceThe Necronomican, Cthulhu Cycle Book 12
165Rudy RuckerFrek and the Elixer
135Charles StrossThe Family Trade
182Charles StrossThe Hidden Family
153Fred SaberhagenRogue Berserker
160Sherri S. TepperThe Fresco
146Herbert ThomasThe Superlative Man
154Lynn TrussEats, Shoots and Leaves
180Harry TurtledoveThe Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century
157Tim WaggonerNecropolis
134Gene WolfeThe Wizard Knight
149John C. WrightThe Golden Age
169John C. WrightThe Last Guardian of Everness
148Philip WylieThe Gladiator

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